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Realism
o States
o Sovereignty
o Power
o National interest
o Balance of power
o Diplomacy
o Self help
o Neorealism
Structure
nternational system
Rules
Multipolarity - unipolarity
Liberalism
o Norms
o nternational regimes
o nterdependence
Marxist
o Capitalist economy
o Class
o Class interest
o Core/semi core/ periphery
o Dominance of global capitalism
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Social Constructivism
o Mid-1990s/disintegration of soviet empire
o Human agency potential
o Social World is external to the people
o Anarchy is what states make of it
Post Structuralism
o Past 15 years
o Lyotard: simplifying to the extreme i define post modern as
ncredulity towards metanarratives
o Scepticism to foundational epistemology
o Michael foucault
o Knowledge is not immune from the workings of power
o Power in fact produces knowledge
Post colonialism
o Military and economic subordination of the global South by powerful
western interests
Globalization
Realist: globalization does not alter the territorial division of the World into
nation states
Liberal: globalization shows that states are no longer central actors
Marxist: latest stage in the development of international capitalism
Constructivist: we can mould globalization
Post-structuralists: it is a discourse and does not exist out in the World.
9 features
n favour of globalization
Objections
Chapter 2 Globalization
Hyperglobalists
o The demise of the sovereign nation-state as global forces undermine
the ability f governments to control or manage their own economies
and societies
Sceptics
o States and geopolitics remain the principal agents and forces
shaping World politics today.
Transformationalist
o Both are exaggerate their arguments
o The distinction between domestic and international affairs is no
longer very meaningfull
Globalization
Globalization
Sceptics
By comparison with the period 1870 to 1914, the World is much less
globalized economically, politically and culturally
The contemporary World is marked by intensifying geopolitics,
regionalization and internationalization, rather than by globalization
The vast bulk of international economic and political activity is
concentrated within the group of OECD states
By comparison with the hayday of European global empires, the majority of
the worlds population and countries in the South are now much less
integrated into global system.
Geopolitics, state power, nationalism and territorial boundaries are of
growing not reducing, significance in World politics
Criticism